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Now Available:HISTORY'S BEST PLACES TO KISS
To spare themselves a protracted divorce, a couple goes back in time to prevent themselves from getting married. As one would hope, shit gets crazy. Available in fine bookstores everywhere, e-readers of note, or you can order direct from the publisher here.

12/8/2014

Now Available:
THE DRAWSTRING DETECTIVE
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Author Spotlight

READ! LISTEN! ENJOY!

My new short story "The Drawstring Detective" is now available at Lightspeed Magazine.

But the BEST WAY to enjoy the story is to buy the whole December issue of Lightspeed Magazine. For a paltry $3.99 you can get all the stories plus a TON of EXCLUSIVE bonus content, all while support a fantastic magazine!!!

PLUS, the good folks over at Lightspeed Magazine did an Author Spotlight on me, in which I speak on matters of great import such as my creative process and spontaneous testicle combustion. Check it out HERE.

11/2/2014

COMING SOON: HISTORY'S BEST PLACES TO KISS

I'm over-the-moon to announce that my comedic take on romance and time travel, History's Best Places to Kiss, has been picked up by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and is scheduled to appear in their Jan/Feb 2015 issue!!! I'll post a release date and ordering info here when I receive it. Until then, scope out their latest offerings. Every MAMMOTH issue of F&SF is packed with enough science fiction and fantasy to make your brain explode in a storm of horrifying confetti.
Check them out HERE.

10/31/2014

COMING SOON: THE DRAWSTRING DETECTIVE

My short story The Drawstring Detective will be coming out in the December issue of Lightspeed Magazine. The timing couldn't be better, as it's my take on the toy-comes-to-life genre of story. I'll post the link when the story goes live, but in the meantime, do yourself a favor and check out their site. Tons of free sci-fi and fantasy fiction at your fingertips. You can also download podcasts of many of the stories. All the magic can be found HERE.

The great folks over at TOR.com recently asked me some rad questions, to which I tried to give informatively saucy answers to their POP QUIZ AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.
For the full (and extremely NSFW) inteview, click HERE.

9/9/2014

Monstrous Affections now available!
The amazing YA anthology full of rock star names and, somehow, my name too, is out in the wild. Pick it up at your local bookstore, download it to your e-reader, or suck it out of the ether with the power of your mind!

So, the super-cool YA anthology that I'm in, that will be hitting September 9th like a kidney punch, now has a super-cool cover. Also, see the ridiculous table of contents that I'm kinda (definitely, in all ways) blown away that I get to a part of is listed below...

Cover By: Yuko Shimizu

Table of Contents:

Paolo Bacigalupi—Moriabe’s Children

Cassandra Clare—Old Souls

Holly Black—Ten Rules for Being an Intergalactic Smuggler (The Successful Kind)

M. T. Anderson—Quick Hill

Nathan Ballingrud—The Diabolist

Patrick Ness—This Whole Demoning Thing

Sarah Rees Brennan—Wings in the Morning

Nalo Hopkinson—Left Foot, Right

G. Carl Purcell—The Mercurials

Dylan Horrocks—Kitty Capulet and the Invention of Underwater Photography

Nik Houser—Son of Abyss

Kathleen Jennings—A Small Wild Magic

Kelly Link—The New Boyfriend

Joshua Lewis—The Woods Hide in Plain Sight

Alice Sola Kim—Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying

2/8/2014

SALE! SALE! SALE! Everything MUST go!!!

So, lovely news, I've got three stories coming out soon-ish:

"Citizen Flame" - A man lost in the Nevada desert tells his busted GPS to "Go to Hell", so it does. Appearing in CEMETERY DANCE, issue tbd.

"The
Drawstring Detective" - A woman buys a talking tin toy at a magical
pawn shop to help her find her missing wedding ring. Together, they find
both friendship and a bitter truth. Appearing in LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE, date tbd.

"Son of Abyss" - A second-world coming-of-age dark fantasy about a high school kid navigating puberty and the perils of blood sacrifice. Appearing in MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS, a collection of original YA stories edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, published Sept. 9 by Candlewick Press.

12/1/2013

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